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| Inmagic Gatherer Use the Gatherer to
Easily Harvest Relevant Content from Internal and External
Sources To remain competitive, organizations need to make smart business
decisions quickly. The ability to search and find relevant and timely
information is critical to success. In today's enterprise, there is no
lack of available information - MSOffice and other tools used daily make
it easy for all of us to publish content electronically. But, as The
Delphi Group noted in their white paper Taxonomy & Content
Classification, "The information based economy is in danger of
drowning in a sea of irrelevant, unstructured data." It has become impossible for organizations to find what they need. The
number one problem is unorganized information. The Inmagic
Gatherer is a spidering tool that can
assist organizations in addressing their own information glut. This
out-of-the-box solution allows an enterprise to automatically build and
maintain a completely searchable knowledge base of critical content -
harvested from information repositories within the company or from
competitor or other sites on the Web. Cataloging and Searching with the Gatherer The Gatherer crawls your corporate intranet, extranet, Internet,
or even competitor Web sites, then gathers information (HTML, Text files,
MS Office documents, presentations and PDF files. You determine which
information you need and how much of it you'd like, and the Inmagic
Gatherer does the rest. What's more, the Gather enables you to add
metadata tags and other information to further categorize the information.
An easy-to-use administration interface allows you to specify the
network servers or files to be crawled as well as schedule the crawling.
For Web-based resources, the user can specify a Web site or list of Web
sites to be crawled by the Gatherer. Once the content is harvested by the Gatherer, it is loaded into the
appropriate DB/TextWorks® knowledge base and is available immediately for
searching by the end-user. With Inmagic's Web publishing tool, DB/Text®
WebPublisher, this content can be simultaneously deployed to
the Web or a company intranet and used as a part of a knowledge management
or other enterprise information portal. How it Works The Gatherer crawls various content sources such as network file
systems and Web sites. Once content is gathered, full text and document
properties are extracted and a load file is produced that includes
information about each document from each source. This includes the
location of the stored extract text, the location of a local copy of the
original document and the location from the document was originally
gathered. The Gatherer employs filters to retrieve content from various
sources and produces native format copies of the gathered content,
documents containing the extracted text, and XML-formatted load files
containing metadata. The content can then be loaded into a DB/TextWorks searchable knowledge base. Gain an Edge on Your Competitors Chances are you visit your competitors' Web sites to keep apprised of
any major announcements. Most likely, there is also competitive
information residing in files throughout your company. The Gatherer
crawls this information to create a searchable competitive intelligence
database. Just set the Gatherer to check for updates as often as
you'd like--daily, weekly, monthly--to give you that competitive edge! And
if you find that you're experiencing "information overload," instruct the
Gatherer to retrieve specific Web pages, portions of Web sites, or
URLs. When the Gatherer is combined with IntelliMagic, you have a
robust enterprise-wide competitive intelligence solution that integrates
relevant internal and external intelligence searchable from the
Intranet. Easy to Set Up, Easy to Use, Easy to Maintain
With its quick set-up, you'll be up and running in no time. The
Gatherer requires little training and can be deployed rapidly for
low-cost-of-ownership. Just install the Gatherer, tell it where to
go, when, and how often, and you're on your way. Customize it to meet your
needs. Then forget about it. But what if you need to edit or modify Gatherer results? No
problem. Inmagic's indexing backend, DB/TextWorks, enables you to easily
interact with the Gatherer. You can add metadata, delete URLs, or
create search result views with our user-friendly WYSIWYG drag-and- drop
tool. Worried that our Gatherer will increase your network traffic?
Don't be concerned. The Inmagic Gatherer actually minimizes
traffic, since you can set it up to run during off-peak hours. Set it up
so the Gatherer crawls your intranet while your company sleeps.
Plus, unchanged or duplicate documents are not re-spidered or re-indexed.
How the Inmagic Gatherer Can Help You
Here's how some of our customers are benefiting from our harvesting
tools:
Inmagic Gatherer delivers high value and flexibility with
relatively low management overhead, low implementation costs, and rapid
deployment. Click here for information in PDF
format. System Requirements for the Gatherer:
Hardware • Intel Pentium processor, 90 MHz minimum Operating System • Windows 2000 Professional or Server,
Service Pack 3 or Web Server • Microsoft
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